SUGA Yasukichi
須賀安吉
Born: 1 June 1880 – Died: 1 April 1942
Particulars:
Yasukichi was born in Wakayama Prefecture in Japan. He arrived on Waibene / Thursday Island, Australia in 1897 aboard a Chinese ship. He was single, working as a laundryman with a married sister in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture. When he was arrested, he had personal clothing and 1 shilling 7 pence in cash, which was taken by the authorities at Hay Internment Camp in Victoria where he was interned. He was admitted to hospital one month later and died of tuberculosis and heart failure. His grave is in the Japanese Cemetery in Cowra, New South Wales, Australia.
–Mari Suzuki
More info:
Mari Suzuki
Artist/s Statement:
Apart from the wet season, the weather would have been tropical sunny. For a laundry man the island breezes whipping up drying laundry on long wire lines would have made ideal washing days.
Artist Bio:
Mari Suzuki is a fourth-generation Japanese Australian whose parents and family members were born on Thursday Island in Queensland, Australia, and were interned at Tatura Interment Camp in Victoria during the war.